BY CHRIS SLEE& GEOFF SPENCER
MELBOURNE — Strikes and lockouts continue at a number of Melbourne factories as members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union campaign for new enterprise agreements which include a 36-hour work week.
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BY DALE T. McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — Two years ago I sat with veteran African National Congress leader Walter Sisulu in his modest Johannesburg home to talk about his days as a youthful ANC leader in the 1940s and 1950s. Although I had briefly met
BY PAUL PRITCHARD
HOBART — Amid reports of increased cases of asthma from the thick palls of smoke that cover much of Tasmania during the forestry "re-generation burns" comes an altogether more disturbing story.
In April, Australia's biggest
BY SIMON TAYLER
In late March, Books Not Bombs national coordinator Kylie Moon met with NSW police officers to organise a march permit for an anti-war protest in Sydney, due to be held on April 2. Not only did the police refuse the permit to march,
BY PETER BOYLE
The Socialist Alliance is a multi-tendency socialist party which welcomes and protects the right to campaign for a diversity of political positions within the framework of its broad socialist objectives.
The second national
When Laci Peterson's mutilated body washed up on a California shore on April 13, Americans were shocked and appalled. Cries for justice were greeted with the swift arrest of her husband Scott, who was charged with her murder — and with the "murder"
BY GRANT COLEMAN
In his May 13 budget speech, treasurer Peter Costello announced a 10-year package of reforms to Australia's higher education system, Our Universities: Backing Australia's Future. This package, the end result of the 12-month Higher
This garden has been in a drought for a long time,Once you could take hope from this garden,But for a long time you stole it,Now it is dry,No-one is thinking about the dying flowers,No-one is thinking about why children panic in their sleep at
BY RAUL BASSI
SYDNEY — On May 18, when activists from the Bankstown branch of the Socialist Alliance went to the office at the top of the arcade, they found the place had been sealed off by the police.
After some enquiring, they learnt what had
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE — More than 300 people packed the Brunswick Town Hall for Vic Little's memorial service on May 20.
Born in Mildura in 1914, the son of a poor mining family, Vic knew from an early age on what "struggling" meant.
BY ALICIA JRAPKO
More than 10,000 piqueteros (unemployed workers) marched in Buenos Aires on May 14, in a massive show of support for the workers who had occupied the Brukman textile plant. The occupiers were violently evicted by police on April
BY PATRICK BOND
HAVANA — Visitors experiencing Cuba for the first time cannot help but remark upon how the economic and political pressures being imposed on the country seem untenable. What would be possible in a just world, given Cuban society's
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